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SUBMITTER: Figueroa-Lopez AM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6863440 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Figueroa-López Alejandro Miguel AM Maldonado-Mendoza Ignacio Eduardo IE López-Cervantes Jaime J Verdugo-Fuentes Abel Alberto AA Ruiz-Vega Dante Alejandro DA Cantú-Soto Ernesto Uriel EU
Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] 20190411 3
This study focuses on the prevalence of Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) in pork meat and on inert surfaces from slaughterhouses in Sonora, Mexico. A total of 21 Lm were obtained from 103 samples, giving a prevalence of 20.3%. The prevalence of Lm in pork loin was 15.9% and 20.8% for inert surfaces in Federal Inspection Type (FIT) slaughterhouses. For non-FIT slaughterhouses, the prevalence was 25.7%. PCR amplification of genomic DNA from the Lm isolates revealed the presence of the hlyA gene, sugges ...[more]